How to Grow Your YouTube Channel with a Video Series

We all like good television series, whether it be the latest crime drama, comedy, a good education series on discovery or a re-creation of a good classic.

But nowadays, an increasing amount of people are turning off their televisions and moving towards their computers in search of series– more specifically, YouTube series. Even students are relying on the YouTube series for their education purpose in the Post Covid era. Internet, online education, OTT platforms etc have become a new normal. This is the best time to grow your YouTube channels and monetize them by increasing their subscribers.

How YouTube video series grow the channel

The YouTube series is an official set of videos that should be viewed together. All the YouTube series videos are added to a playlist, so it allows other videos in that playlist to get featured and recommended when someone is viewing a video of that series. So, we can say that a YouTube series is a set of episodes following one storyline or topic. A YouTube video series can help to turn one-time viewers into YouTube channel subscribers.

Creators should follow some plans and tactics to use YouTube series as a sure - shot path to success. Filtering the YouTube video topic ideas through the research and planning process helps creators to understand what their ideal audiences are searching online.

By creating any topic video series that addresses those questions, a channel can become a valuable resource for the audience, it attracts new viewers and establishes you as an authority in your domain.

Let’s see how to make a good video series −

• Research for a good topic − The video planning process starts with generating a good video topic. A good place to search for brainstorming video topics is to look at your YouTube Analytics to see what the most popular videos are and use them. To find these metrics, go to your YouTube channel.

After that click on Your channel.

On the left-hand side click Analytics. After that click on Research.

Type the topic you want to research on and you see the search volume of that topic

Type the topic on which you want to create your video and analyse the topic for its volume high, medium or low.

Search for the topic and make the series to engage your viewers and attract new viewers. After finding the topic perform the following actions to give boost to your channel.

• Develop a List of Keywords and Phrases to Optimize Each Video’s Title, Description, and Tags for Search - After preparing a list of potential video topics, the next step is to increase the search ability of these videos. Use YouTube keyword research tool to Perform keyword research to ensure that your video topics are aligned with what viewers are searching for on YouTube. By YouTube analytics you can search keywords.

https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCfZd2U30VF1Q5c-57Pdr7Ww/analytics/tab-overview/period-default

Click on Research and type the topic you want to create series. Click OK. You will get result.

• After you identify viable keywords, put them into the video’s title, description, and tags. Providing detailed information about videos improves the chances that the right viewers will find your videos in search results. You can see in the example down below that how marketing and SEO are used in title and description

• Create a Series Related to a Single Topic - Start by creating a series of videos. All the series topics must be directly related to each other. So, when viewers view one of your videos, it will be easy to encourage them to watch another video in the series.

  From a tactical standpoint, a video series works well on YouTube because it can be linked to the videos in your series through the video’s end screen and links in the video description. One of the examples to show the educational video series is shown below. The famous YouTube channel Tutorials Point created the YouTube series on educational topics.

Pro Tips to be followed for YouTube Series to grow your channel

There are some pro techniques to get maximum reach for your YouTube series. These are as follows −

• Arrange videos of a series in order and put them in one playlist.

• Feature your new YouTube series in first place on Your channel.

• Link videos within your playlist.

• Create an approximately 90 - second series trailer, and start posting it one week before the series to create hype among viewers.

• Set series trailer as channel trailer during the whole time when series is new.

• Start a remarketing ad campaign.

• Update your channel landing page, and give it a new look to grow as a community.

• Update the end screen of every video in a series i.e., teaser for the next video.

• Give every series a unique name and all videos a serial number. So that viewers can differentiate between videos on your channel.

• Design all strategies with a creative and cool mind, imaging yourself as a viewer.

At last, it can be said that YouTube series can give the best possible pitch for channel growth. It’s you, who have to play the match and win.